Web Portals
Web Portals
Submitted by:
Louies Marc Agojo
Kathleen Richelle Lubi
BSIT 4-2
Web Portals * A Web portal or Public portal refers to a website or service that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as e-mail, forums, search engines, and online shopping malls. The first Web portals were online services, such as AOL, that provided access to the Web, but by now most of the traditional search engines have transformed themselves into Web portals to attract and keep a larger audience. * Examples of public web portals are AOL, Excite, iGoogle, MSN, Indiatimes, Rediff and Yahoo!.
Portal Concepts * Portals let you combine discrete processes and pieces of functionality into a single Web interface. Before portals, Web users could visit only one page at a time. They could, for example, search for airline flights in a browser window, but if they wanted to see their personal calendars or view their organization's travel policies, they would have to open a new window and probably log in more than once. Chances are that each site would also look and feel differently than the other sites. With portals, users are able to view all of those sites, and many more, in a single browser window with single sign-on and a common look and feel. * Portals accomplish this unified view with individual windows called portlets. Each portlet can contain a process flow, functionality, or content, and multiple portlets can be displayed in a single browser window. In some portals, portlets can even communicate with each other. Portlets are grouped onto a page. A page is a viewable area represented by a clickable link often in the form of a tab. Pages can further be grouped into a book for organization. Books are also represented by navigation links or tabs. In all, a portal can contain multiple books, each with multiple pages that display multiple portlets on each page. * Another characteristic of a portal is a common look and feel shared among books, pages, and
Submitted by:
Louies Marc Agojo
Kathleen Richelle Lubi
BSIT 4-2
Web Portals * A Web portal or Public portal refers to a website or service that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as e-mail, forums, search engines, and online shopping malls. The first Web portals were online services, such as AOL, that provided access to the Web, but by now most of the traditional search engines have transformed themselves into Web portals to attract and keep a larger audience. * Examples of public web portals are AOL, Excite, iGoogle, MSN, Indiatimes, Rediff and Yahoo!.
Portal Concepts * Portals let you combine discrete processes and pieces of functionality into a single Web interface. Before portals, Web users could visit only one page at a time. They could, for example, search for airline flights in a browser window, but if they wanted to see their personal calendars or view their organization's travel policies, they would have to open a new window and probably log in more than once. Chances are that each site would also look and feel differently than the other sites. With portals, users are able to view all of those sites, and many more, in a single browser window with single sign-on and a common look and feel. * Portals accomplish this unified view with individual windows called portlets. Each portlet can contain a process flow, functionality, or content, and multiple portlets can be displayed in a single browser window. In some portals, portlets can even communicate with each other. Portlets are grouped onto a page. A page is a viewable area represented by a clickable link often in the form of a tab. Pages can further be grouped into a book for organization. Books are also represented by navigation links or tabs. In all, a portal can contain multiple books, each with multiple pages that display multiple portlets on each page. * Another characteristic of a portal is a common look and feel shared among books, pages, and